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[1] Quas-peet-za ("curled-hairs" or "curly-haired.") The same word is used for "buffalo robes." The Okanogan and other interior Northwest tribes occasionally hunted buffalo east of the Rockies, and they frequently obtained buffalo robes and dried buffalo meat in trade.

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